sawyer

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun one who is employed to saw wood
  2. noun any of several beetles whose larvae bore holes in dead or dying trees especially conifers

Etymology

From Middle English sawyer, sawier, sawior, equivalent to saw + -yer. Doublet of sawer.

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